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consecrateadjective set apart or worthy of veneration by association with Godthe consecrate gold tablets which Joseph Smith claimed to have found blessed(also blest), consecrated, hallowed, holy, sacral, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified adored, enshrined, glorified, revered, venerated, worshipped(also worshiped)ceremonial, liturgical, priestly, religious, ritual, sacramental, spiritualbiblical, scriptural deconsecrated, desacralized, unconsecrated, unhallowed nonreligious, unspiritualearthly, mundane, profane, secular, temporal, worldly to keep or intend for a special purposea philanthropist who consecrated his considerable fortune to an array of charitable causes allocate, dedicate, devote, earmark, give up (to), reserve, save, set by bless, hallow, sanctifycommit, confide, consign, entrust(also intrust)apply, bestow, employ, use set apart, set aside ignore, neglectmisapply, misuse to make holy through prayers or ritualplans to consecrate the altar in the new church with great ceremony bless, hallow, sacralize, sanctify baptize, canonize, spiritualizechasten, cleanse, lustrate, purifyexorcise(also exorcize), expurgatecommit, dedicate, devotereconsecrate deconsecrate, desacralize, desanctify defile, desecrate, profanedirty, foul, pollute, soil, taint, violateblaspheme, curse, cuss, damn, execratecast out, condemn, damn, punish v.devote, dedicate, consecrate, hallow mean to set apart for a special and often higher end.devote is likely to imply compelling motives and often attachment to an objective.devoted his evenings to study dedicate implies solemn and exclusive devotion to a sacred or serious use or purpose.dedicated her life to medical research consecrate stresses investment with a solemn or sacred quality.consecrate a church to the worship of God hallow, often differing little from dedicate or consecrate, may distinctively imply an attribution of intrinsic sanctity.battlegrounds hallowed by the blood of patriots in the 14th century |